podsnappery

American  

[pahd-snap-er-ee] / pɑdˈsnæp ər i /

noun

1. a smug attitude characterized by denying or dismissing unwelcome facts and opinions.

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Example Sentences

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Pickwickian, Bumbledom, Gradgrind, Podsnappery, Pecksniffian and the Artful Dodger have also escaped from the novels in which they first appeared to designate types of humanity.

From The Guardian

Podsnappery, Dickens knows, is loathsome all on its own, but then it’s even worse in its blighting of other lives.

From Slate

But the high parental action was not yet imparted to her, and in truth she was but an undersized damsel, with high shoulders, low spirits, chilled elbows, and a rasped surface of nose, who seemed to take occasional frosty peeps out of childhood into womanhood, and to shrink back again, overcome by her mother’s headdress and her father from head to foot—crushed by the mere dead weight of Podsnappery.

From Project Gutenberg

Podsnappery as environment is always much stronger than Podsnappery as heredity.

From Project Gutenberg

Thoughtful people need no explanation regarding the influence of Podsnappery on children.

From Project Gutenberg